eli5: How come alchoal withdraw has a chance to kill you?
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Your body has receptors that alcohol inhibits. So your body makes more of these receptors to try and have enough functioning properly while some are being inhibited by the alcohol that’s usually around. Suddenly you stop drinking and you have tons of these receptors around and none of them are being inhibited anymore. So your body is in a super excited state and your blood pressure, heart rate, and brain activity sky rockets. This can cause fatal events like a heart attack or brain damage from seizure activity.
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